In bug tracking process we will be having the two options SEVERITY and PRIORITY.

Severity is

Hi..

Severity is confined to Test Engineer.

Priority is confined to Developer.

Once the defect profile is received by the developer from the tester he will be first look into the defects with the Priority as CRITICAL then HIGH MEDIUM and LOW.

Severity is important according to Testing Team perceptive while raising a defect. Where as Priority comes first while executing the Bug....Coz based on the priority only we (testers) will decide which to execute first and not.

So both are important in different directions.

Severity will be given by Testers and Priority will be given by Business Analyst or by Delivary Managers.

It depends on the condition for example there is release time and there are two bugs the first one is if you inter a 100 word password then the system will crash and the second one is the GUI related bug in which your company name spelling is not correct. And you can solve only one bug this time due to less time then

For password related bug I will assign: high severity low priority

For GUI related bug I will assign : high priority low severity.

Bug Tracking process is some thing is like this. Once the bug has been raised then the tester has to track the bug till closer.

Once the defect is logged we will specifiy the Severity. And Team lead will prioritze the bug bag/defect based on High Medium and Low. This is done in a analysis process called Defect Analysis report. Here Test Lead Development Lead QA lead PM will be the actors. They will discuss and aggree upon priority of the defect where they will decied which they will fix for the next build and which will be fixed later. After that in the next build they will fix all the bugs based on the priority. And now the tester has to verify and closed/Re-issue the defects.

Bug tracking is tracking the defects from open to close status.

As per tester point of view severity is importent one. Beacause tester only can specify severity as per bug impact wise. Prority is How fast it should fix by developer?.

If tester point of view severity high but developer may not consider that bug as importent one.... Finally prority is going to place importent role for fixes time.

Hi

Severity & Priority will be given by the tester while logging the defects. and it shd be approved by his/her superior.

Severity defines how worst the functionlity is working.

Priority defines how fast the reported issues shd be fix.

(if defect is a showstopper then it will be critical&high like wise we have to assign)

and more over these will be depend on test case priority also.

while fixing the bugs developers mainly concentrate on these two areas to filter and fix the bugs.

Hi All.

Severity : How the bad bug reflects its impact to the product and to the user.

Priority : How the importence to fix the bug. what based we can fix. Either Immediate or High or Medium or Low.

Regards

Anand Amalan